Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

It is only through timidity that states are lost.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.